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<p>[QUOTE="physics-fan3.14, post: 3232394, member: 19165"]The hits won't have a significant impact on grade - the grade is determined more by the wear than contact marks for circulated coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>For this coin, you have to factor in the strike. Often, Indians were struck lacking details in the feathers - you can't use that as a single point of guidance. Compare the Indians in Photograde to the one shown here: <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#/Indian/Grades" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#/Indian/Grades" rel="nofollow">https://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#/Indian/Grades</a></p><p><br /></p><p>What you see is, in EF-40, there is still a good bit of wear on the feathers. But, there is also considerable wear evident on the bow and leaves on the reverse, and the headband looks quite a bit flatter. The coin shown here just doesn't have as much wear as you would expect for an EF-40 - which leads me to believe that a weak strike on the feathers is confusing the grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="physics-fan3.14, post: 3232394, member: 19165"]The hits won't have a significant impact on grade - the grade is determined more by the wear than contact marks for circulated coins. For this coin, you have to factor in the strike. Often, Indians were struck lacking details in the feathers - you can't use that as a single point of guidance. Compare the Indians in Photograde to the one shown here: [url]https://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#/Indian/Grades[/url] What you see is, in EF-40, there is still a good bit of wear on the feathers. But, there is also considerable wear evident on the bow and leaves on the reverse, and the headband looks quite a bit flatter. The coin shown here just doesn't have as much wear as you would expect for an EF-40 - which leads me to believe that a weak strike on the feathers is confusing the grade.[/QUOTE]
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